You know what is like rape? Rape is like rape: when it’s inevitable, you might as well bend over and enjoy it. Such is the gist and giblets of Rich Lowry’s recent post over at the National Review, “The Never Trump Delusion”, informing his principled peers that anal rape is the better part of valor—though…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Kevin Williamson, more peccant than impeccable
There’s a bit of a to-do in the blogosphere regarding the recent hiring of Kevin “Mattress Face” Williamson1 by the Atlantic, one that leaves me, remarkably enough, on the side of the ululating left, who are (mostly) mad at Kev’s pathetically “provocative” “jest” that women who get abortions should be hung.2 I don’t think old…
David Ignatius is NOT a vampire. He CAN see himself in a mirror. He just doesn’t WANT to.
You can’t blame the guy, can you? If I lied like Dave, I wouldn’t want to look at myself in the mirror either. Dave’s latest gaze blocker, delivered in the course of his mandatory suck-up to newly arrived enabler in chief John Bolton, runs as follows: “Bolton’s hawkishness toward North Korea now looks prescient. He…
Donald Trump: Even when he’s (kind of) right, he’s awful
What is one to make of El Supremo’s sweaty, long-running mancrush on stunning Slavic muscleboy Vladimir Putin,1 aka (in Donnie’s dreams) Vlad the Impaler? Is it just a thuggish admiration society, the way Hitler had it in for Mussolini? Secret investments in a polar pipeline? Or maybe the whole golden shower thing? Well, who knows,…
Andrea Andreoli—“Four In One”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-3NuPdtlXc Brief, but excellent. I like to hear Monk on the trombone, since it isn’t a natural fit. Posted by Andreoli
First Things First: Uncle Reno’s Just So Stories
What do you get when you click on an article in First Things, that heady brew of theological harrumphing first set in motion by frenzied spiritual striver Richard John Neuhaus, about whom I (mostly) snickered here? Well, judging from this piece by the site’s editor, R.R. (Richard Russell) Reno, “End Times Anxiety”, you’ll learn a…
The Wrath of Eli
Yo, Donald Trump! Eli Lake has so had it with you! Listen up! Condemn Putin, goddamnit! Condemn him and all his works! No more of your tricks! No more “tough action and words from the underlings, and baffling nonsense or sinister silence from the president.” Stop being so sinister! Eli is putting you on notice:…
Some Murderers Are More Equal Than Others
The recent attempted murder of Sergei Skripal and his daughter, using a nerve gas developed by the Soviet Union, is ghastly and horrifying and deserving of the severest condemnation. But I am reminded of another murder attempt—a successful one, this time—that occurred in Washington, DC on September 21, 1976, of Orlando Letelier, a prominent Chilean…
The Wrath of Farrakhan
Adam Serwer has a nice—nice but incomplete—post up at the Atlantic, “Why Tamika Mallory Won’t Condemn Farrakhan”, explaining why Tamika Mallory, national co-chair for the Women’s March, refuses to “apologize” for attending the Nation of Islam’s annual Saviour’s Day event last month, at which time Farrakhan engaged in his now standard apocalyptic anti-Semitic rhetoric, seasoned…
Maiko Jazz Violin—“Straight No Chaser”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGNLp_Lx0Ew Yeah, I know, “Straight No Chaser” was last month. But I wanted to do two Japanese violin chicks wailing on Monk in a row. Posted by Maiko Jazz Violin